The American Silk Growers Guide Or the Art of Raising the Mulberry And Silk
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Stony" And trees growing on dry, sandy or stony soils, and situated on the open plains, and on hills the most exposed to cold winds, will be found to suffer least of all from the destructive frosts of autumn and of winter. With all authors I must agree in recommend- ing a soil of but moderate fertility, and least of all a cold, moist, and heavy soil on a clay foundation, or even a very rich soil ; a dry soil on a friable subsoil, on gen- tle elevations or declivities, being the most suitable of... all for the mulberry from China. Land of middling quality will answer admirably ; land less calculated for other profitable cultivation. Land half covered with rocks, may be profitably covered with mulberry trees, which will here find ample moisture, and nourishment, and warmth, from the direct and reflected rays of the sun. This culture alone is wanting to render the less fertile sections of our fine country rich. Before the introduc- CULTIVATION. 47 tion of the mulberry into the less fertile districts of Lan- guedoc, in France, the inhabitants, it has been stated, were miserably poor, though now they are among the richest in the kingdom.
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